John Fowles: A Life in Two Worlds
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John Fowles has been compared to Henry James and Virginia Woolf. Christopher Lehmann-Haupt in "The New York Times" hailed him as aa remarkable novelist, a and the novelist John Gardner described him as athe only writer in English who has the power, range, knowledge, and wisdom of a Tolstoy.a Four of his works have been adapted for film, including the Academy Awardanominated "The French Lieutenantas Woman," Despite his immense critical and popular success, only now has Fowles found the capable biographer he has long deserved. In "John Fowles: A Life in Two Worlds," Eileen Warburton provides a richly detailed portrait that emphasizes his emergence as one the twentieth centuryas most important writers. She chronicles his prewar childhood in a London commuter town and in wartime rural England, his Oxford education, and his apprentice years in Europe and London. From a lifetime of intimate correspondence, she narrates Fowlesas thirty-seven-year love affair with the wife who inspired his most memorable women characters. And she follows the astonishing trajectory of Fowlesas long writing careerafrom his spectacular debut novel, "The Collector" (1963), to the haunting "The French Lieutenantas Woman" (1969), through his later fiction, poems, essays, and translations.
Author: Eileen Warburton
Format: Hardback, 510 pages, 157mm x 239mm, 939 g
Published: 2004, Viking Books, United States
Genre: Autobiography: Literary
John Fowles has been compared to Henry James and Virginia Woolf. Christopher Lehmann-Haupt in "The New York Times" hailed him as aa remarkable novelist, a and the novelist John Gardner described him as athe only writer in English who has the power, range, knowledge, and wisdom of a Tolstoy.a Four of his works have been adapted for film, including the Academy Awardanominated "The French Lieutenantas Woman," Despite his immense critical and popular success, only now has Fowles found the capable biographer he has long deserved. In "John Fowles: A Life in Two Worlds," Eileen Warburton provides a richly detailed portrait that emphasizes his emergence as one the twentieth centuryas most important writers. She chronicles his prewar childhood in a London commuter town and in wartime rural England, his Oxford education, and his apprentice years in Europe and London. From a lifetime of intimate correspondence, she narrates Fowlesas thirty-seven-year love affair with the wife who inspired his most memorable women characters. And she follows the astonishing trajectory of Fowlesas long writing careerafrom his spectacular debut novel, "The Collector" (1963), to the haunting "The French Lieutenantas Woman" (1969), through his later fiction, poems, essays, and translations.